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SMEs avoid rent reviews

An independent analysis of 91,000 tenancies published today shows that small businesses are increasingly signing shorter deals, with 81 per cent on leases of five years or fewer and therefore unlikely to face a rent review. By comparison just over three per cent of small businesses have a lease of over ten years.

British Property Federation/Investment Property Databank, Conservative Party

Ashcroft chooses power over money

The Conservative peer who funded the party’s election campaign in marginal seats has announced he is to give up his non-domiciled tax status in order to retain his seat in the House of Lords.

Ashcroft, Conservative Party, House of Lords

Leisure entrepreneur backs Tories

Mo Chaudry, star of Channel 4 TV’s ‘Secret Millionaire’ and owner of the Waterworld tourist attraction in Stoke-on-Trent, has come out in favour of the Conservative party candidate in the current Election campaign.

Conservative Party, James Rushton, Mo Chaudry, Stoke-on-Trent

Tory plan to reverse NI rise

Shadow chancellor George Osborne is to announce today a pledge by the Conservative Party to reverse part of the National Insurance rise due to come into force from April 2011, should it form the next government.

Conservative Party, George Osborne

Downtown warns on Tory planning proposal

Private Sector lobby group Downtown in Business has backed a national campaign opposing the Conservative Party’s proposed planning policies.

Conservative Party, Downtown, Frank McKenna, Liverpool

CBI: deficit the priority

Employers' organisation the CBI, said it urgently wants the government to bring the deficit down.

Alistair Darling, CBI, Conservative Party, George Osborne, Richard Lambert, the Guardian

Tories set to change PFI model

The Conservative Party are likely to change the current private finance initiative (PFI) model if they win the next election.

Conservative Party, George Osborne

RDAs to be scrapped

The country's regional development agencies will be scrapped, if the Tories win the next election.

Conservative Party, George Osborne, Manchester

Tories to keep 50% tax rates

The Tories would not abolish the 50% tax rate on high earners which is due to be brought in next April.

Conservative Party, George Osborne, Manchester

FPB backs Tory NI plan

A plan for a National Insurance (NI) tax holiday for new start-ups could create 60,000 jobs, it has been claimed by the Shadow Chancellor George Osborne at today’s Conservative Party conference in Manchester.

Conservative Party, George Osborne, Manchester, Phil Orford, The Forum of Private Business, Tory

  • Fat camps

    Turning excess lard into dough? It’s like taking candy from a baby. EN heads to the fit farm and examines a bulging bottom line.

  • Angels with dirty faces

    EN visited the British Business Angels Association’s annual conference and found a sector torn between confidence and crisis.

  • Slick moves

    Are we emerging from recession into an energy crisis? Probably not, as EN discovers.

  • The unavoidable truth

    EN and Downtown in Business hosted a wide-ranging panel debate following June’s emergency Budget. This is what happened.

  • Day nurseries

    Making money out of nurseries should be child’s play. Shouldn’t it? EN examines the real bottom line.

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Frank McKenna has never exactly been shy about being the public face of the Downtown in Business brand, which he founded in Liverpool in 2004 and now boasts operations in Preston and Manchester (the latter launched earlier this year). His weekly, “Thank Frank it’s Friday” email missives, “Frankie Says” blog and Tarantino-inspired advertisements are cases in point.

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